I just replied to an email I had missed last month from Will at Charlotte Fence Company. Will looked at the source code for GrowMap and when he saw nofollow tags in it he thought we were not really Certified DoFollow. It is easy to see how someone might think that so I want to share more details with my readers.
The best WordPress Themes automatically nofollow certain unimportant fields and since we use Thesis that is true here. The nofollow tags Will is seeing are on the Twitter links, dates, and reply links in the comments – not on your anchor text links to your sites.
The best way to determine whether a site adds no follow to links to yours is by using a tool such as the link checker in the SEOBook Toolbar. If you already have the Toolbar look for the red double-arrow to the right of the orange RSS feed icon as shown in the image below:
Highlight No Follow Links
If you have the toolbar turned on (click on the word SEOBook on the far left of the toolbar to toggle the tool off and on) and click on the red Highlight NoFollow Links icon, all nofollowed links on the page will be highlighted in red.
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As you can see in the example image below, Thesis has automatically nofollowed the links for reply, dates, and to your Twitter account and the links to your sites using your selected anchor text and the CommentLuv featured posts are dofollow:
What is No Followed at GrowMap - What is Do Followed
Our source code is visible, but if you want to see the source code on sites where it isn’t use this View HTML Source Code Viewer. Some sites move their source code off-page as part of advanced SEO strategies.
We recommend you check the status of the many links on your blog or site using the free SEOBook Toolbar of one of the other alternatives. It is not a bad idea to nofollow unimportant links.
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Page source is the way I check it
But sometimes NoFollow stays for certain items, but still there are links which are DoFollow, so do not get confused – the site may be configured to combine both
My strategy for having dofollow links is more simple than that – since I am not a SEO professional, I need smth easy to find, and at the same time smth feasible, so my solution was: 1) blogs supporting the KeyWordLuv plugin, and 2) checking the indexed links of some other sites, including thiose ranket at the top and photo-related
Wow! amazing! I think that both links dofollow and nofollow are worthy, but this tool will be very helpful! thank you!)
Hello There,
Thanks for this great info. I just started using seobook. It’s a great tool for seo and you can say it’s the “swiss knife” when it comes to seo. One question though, what do you think of seoquake? most of the people I know tend to favor seoquake. But in my experience, it’s a pain if it’s on when you are creating/manipulating your website.
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September 19, 2011 at 1:35 am
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I am using mozilla nofollow adon its also good and really these type of tool really helps a lot as to check manually its really very hard and you can remember it all the time
i’m using the same tool and i’m very happy with it too.. i mean as you said, it’s kind of hard to remember all of those nofollow sites, and this tool basically points them out to you..
nice article
~alex
I use SEO quake for it and nodofollow (works on the new firefox now).
I like seo quake because it does a strikethrough the nofollow links. That’s a bit less in your face and it’s not that annoying to leave on.
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Usually I use firefox add ons to check dofollow nofollow sites including pagerank ..
The idea was so simple, if you’re a do follow, you’ll receive a good reputation. Actually, this thing is very necessary especially in blogging. Every blogger really aims to be one of the most followed. That’s why they are working so hard to come up with great ideas.
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There’s no way to leave all links do-follow, and there’s no point to it.
I can understand Will though when that much red struck him on your blog.
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July 14, 2011 at 1:40 am
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I am also using SearchStatus tool for know about no/dofollow. Also SearchStatus tool lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
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I have first time read about SEOBook Toolbar.I will sure explore the anatomy of the tool. From 2011 Google has considered the links from twitter for ranking of sites and Google award ranking to the sites that have do follow links.
Yep, that is one handy tool to use. I use it all the time for SEO.
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July 4, 2011 at 9:17 am
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I think SEOBook’s Nofollow detection is better than SEOQuake. Then again, it is all a matter of personal preference.
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I am using Searchstatus tool to know about dofollow or nofollow.
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June 14, 2011 at 2:31 am
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i use SEO Quake to determine a nofollow and it has a line through “nofollow’ and ‘noindex’…pretty standard
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SEO Toolbar is an awesome addon, there are more as well….’Search Status’ addon displays Google PR and Alexa Ranks and also highlights nofollow links……and if your looking for a lightweight addon which just tells you about Dofollow/Nofollow, then go for nodofollow addon in Firefox.
I use search status as well. It has served me very well for this sort of thing. I’m not sure if I downloaded on its own or not though, I have a ton of SEO plugins.
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As an alternative to SEOBook, the SEOmoz toolbar also allows you to easily identify no-follow links – both are useful in terms of saving time. Much quicker than searching for the tags in the source code.
I totally agree on this. I actually found out about SEOBook and SEOmoz lately. They definitely gave me quicker and easier work. I don’t have to exhaust myself looking for quality links.
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April 21, 2011 at 10:35 pm
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I usually view the page html source.
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June 21, 2011 at 1:37 am
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i used to use this technique but with all the addons form firefox and chrome like SEO Quake it made it more easy to know if its a dofollow
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October 9, 2011 at 3:00 am
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Hi Layan,
The problem with viewing page html source is that even dofollow blogs need to nofollow unimportant links so you may THINK they’re nofollow when they aren’t.
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